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"Being a great quilter is 5% talent and 95% pushing yourself away from the internet!" ~ Angel Bear
Sweet! I am thinking of using repurposed bed sheets for quilt backs. Already amassing them for fashion garments. Check this out, ladies . . .Bed Sheet Dresses |. Matter of fact I just left our local thrift store as the spirit lead me there ISO (in search of) a good find. I picked up three sheets and a discarded 100% cotton garment which will be part of my Genesis Scrap Quilt, First Handmade Quilt |.
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Just a thought here, I haven't used paper for string quilting but I have done the squares where you layer your backing, batting, and then sew through everything as you add strips. I have a few rows of blocks like this but haven't sewn all together, using men's shirts. Takes several steps out of the job of quilting. The only hangup is sewing the blocks together. They go together easily but you have to deal with the raw edges, either by adding a strip of fabric and sewing it in with the seam and then turning under to form a binding of sorts or something else to cover them. Fast way to put quilt together though.
Last edited by Quiltlover; December 10th, 2013 at 10:49 AM.
A quilting friend told me she sets her stitch length to 1.5 when paper piecing. The paper tears off much easier. I used the M*QC 10" squares for piecing my string quilt. A suggestion: Don't trim your blocks to the edges of the paper (like Jenny does in the tutorial). Use a ruler to square your blocks so they all will be the same size. Sorry, no grandkids in CO to tear off my papers. It really doesn't take that long. Just be careful to not stretch the stitches or your fabric. I've never used muslin, just the paper squares. JCY